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Re: ecos and gettimeofday()
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
>
> Hi Nick
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> What i don't understand now is why only the fileio package uses these
> functions. I would of expected at least the functions in the POSIX
> package to also use these.
>
> What am i missing?
Many of the POSIX package calls are wrappers for straight kernel
calls, or are otherwise immune to the effects of having a signal
handler run.
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